Fun and names
THE WAY THINGS ARE
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
Did you hear the one about the IRA man who, when told by his superiors to sabotage a British vehicle by ‘Blowing ...
Price increases: The government cannot set profit margins
Controlling prices by getting civil servants to draw a line between legitimate and illegitimate profit is a futile exercise
What is the margin of profit? On the face of it, ...
East Med gas – a new message
With tectonic shifts on the world stage, now really is the time to solve the Cyprus problem and put Cyprus’ energy finds to use
In a fast-changing geopolitical world – following ...
Prosecuting war crimes and war criminals
War crimes difficult to prove except that sometimes the facts speak for themselves
According to the Nuremberg Tribunal crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes are committed by ...
Two truces
Two weeks ago, the three biggest wars in the world were in Ukraine, Ethiopia and Yemen. Now truces have silenced the guns and the air strikes in two of the ...
Akel should heed the story of the ten virgins
Cyprus’ behaviour in relation to Russia is of concern to the West
I am not sure whether my thinking has been influenced by the fact that we are half way ...
The economy of Cyprus must adjust to the rapidly changing world
By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides
Economic indicators confirm that Cyprus enjoys a satisfactory standard of living. However, the periodic crises, experienced during recent decades, as well as the new ...
Families suffer from falling wages and lack of decent jobs
How politics has led to deterioration of the labour market since 2012
Has the Cyprus economy recovered from the financial crisis of 2012/2013 in that the majority of its citizens by 2021 were ...
Tragedy in Ukraine has boosted election hopes of Hungary’s Orban
Russian President Vladimir Putin may not be able to save himself, but he may already have saved another despot, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban. There’s an election in ...
Russia’s point of no return
It seems ages ago that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin published a letter in the New York Times over the head of the US administration appealing directly to the American ...
Greatest enemy of well-being is believing false images
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
I always enjoy the articles in Sunday’s Living. Those related to women’s health give interesting and diverse opinions on what’s good and bad ...
Global energy markets upended for good
Ukraine crisis has created opportunities for the East Med region and Cyprus gas
With the EU seeking to get-rid of Russian gas – now at 40 per cent – by two-thirds by the ...
Dyer: Ukraine a whole different game if real problem is Russian troop morale
Russian troops are stalled for the third week outside most of the major cities of eastern and central Ukraine, but they have failed to surround and cut off any of ...
The co-op bank must not be resurrected
Worrying talk of a push to re-establish a bank which cost us all so dearly
The trigger for writing this article was a discussion on Omega TV last week which ...
Sham marriages in Life’s Exit Lounge
Predatory marriages and UK inheritance law
The abuse of marriage is usually associated with deceiving the immigration authorities of a state to obtain residence by people who have no intention ...
Next president must have a clear vision of the future
Veteran negotiator at various rounds of Cyprus talks should think twice about running for president
Andreas Mavroyiannis recently told a journalist that he does not rule out the possibility of ...
Protect refugees but keep them local
The Syrian and Ukraine crises have highlighted the flaws in the current refugee protection system
Like the Syrian refugee crisis, the current displacement of people caused by the war in ...
Ireland, St Patrick, St Brigid and Aphrodite
THE WAY THINGS ARE
By Colette NiReamonn Ioannidou
Ireland, isle of saints and scholars. Glowing PR to which we can add sinners given the past clerical abuse of unmarried mothers ...
The energy transition has come forward; Cyprus must act now
In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen said “EU’s strategy for hydrogen and LNG will be intensified, along with ...
One-year election campaign may not be long enough
Ever since the Republic of Cyprus was born in 1960, she has always had a problematic, moribund and president-centered system of government, which has been a constant source of problems and ...
Inflationary consequences of Russia-Ukraine war and policy implications
The war between Russia and Ukraine and related sanctions has led to much higher energy, raw material and food prices that will seriously diminish the real purchasing power of households ...
Was Britain played by Putin to Brexit?
Freedom of thought and freedom of expression are related but discrete rights under European human rights law. You are free to think what you like, but you are not free ...
The Ukrainian crisis and Cyprus
The response by some political parties has been shocking
By Christos P. Panayiotides
Ukraine is the second largest European country, with an area of 600 thousand square kilometres and a population ...
Does Putin’s suspected steroid addiction explain some of his actions?
It was my wife Tina who noticed it first, a couple of weeks ago. Her father Charl, a clever, gentle man whom we all loved, was addicted to steroids – a ...